How to buy Adecoagro S-A stock | $7.35

Adecoagro S.A is a farm products business based in the US. Adecoagro S-A shares (AGRO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Adecoagro S-A employs 7,938 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$853.9 million.

How to buy shares in Adecoagro S-A

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3. Search for Adecoagro S-A. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: AGRO. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Adecoagro S-A reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$7.35, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Adecoagro S-A, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Adecoagro S-A. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Adecoagro S-A share price

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Adecoagro S-A shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$7.35
52-week range	USD$3.31 - USD$8.52
50-day moving average	USD$5.9174
200-day moving average	USD$5.0128
Wall St. target price	USD$6.44
PE ratio	102.381
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.065

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Adecoagro S-A price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $7.35 from 2021-01-11

1 week (2021-01-14)	-6.61%
1 month (2020-12-23)	19.32%
3 months (2020-10-23)	47.59%
6 months (2020-07-23)	53.44%

1 year (2020-01-23)	-3.54%
2 years (2019-01-23)	-0.54%
3 years (2018-01-23)	10.18
5 years (2016-01-22)	11.56

Is Adecoagro S-A under- or over-valued?

Valuing Adecoagro S-A stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Adecoagro S-A's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Adecoagro S-A's P/E ratio

Adecoagro S-A's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 102x. In other words, Adecoagro S-A shares trade at around 102x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Adecoagro S-A's PEG ratio

Adecoagro S-A's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.06. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Adecoagro S-A's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Adecoagro S-A's EBITDA

Adecoagro S-A's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$293.9 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Adecoagro S-A's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Adecoagro S-A financials

Revenue TTM	USD$853.9 million
Operating margin TTM	17.44%
Gross profit TTM	USD$281.2 million
Return on assets TTM	4%
Return on equity TTM	-3.9%
Profit margin	-4.38%
Book value	$7.168
Market capitalisation	USD$704 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Adecoagro S-A shares

There are currently 589,840 Adecoagro S-A shares held short by investors – that's known as Adecoagro S-A's "short interest". This figure is 11.8% down from 668,730 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Adecoagro S-A shares can be evaluated.

Adecoagro S-A's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Adecoagro S-A's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Adecoagro S-A shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Adecoagro S-A shares traded daily (recently around 305616.58031088). Adecoagro S-A's SIR currently stands at 1.93. In other words for every 100,000 Adecoagro S-A shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1930 shares are currently held short.

However Adecoagro S-A's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Adecoagro S-A shares, or, against the total number of tradable Adecoagro S-A shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Adecoagro S-A's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Adecoagro S-A shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0109% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Adecoagro S-A shares, roughly 11 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Adecoagro S-A.

Find out more about how you can short Adecoagro S-A stock.

Adecoagro S-A share dividends

We're not expecting Adecoagro S-A to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Adecoagro S-A share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Adecoagro S-A's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.31 up to $8.52. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Adecoagro S-A's is 1.1654. This would suggest that Adecoagro S-A's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Adecoagro S-A overview

Adecoagro S.A., an agro-industrial company, engages in farming crops and other agricultural products, dairy operations, sugar, ethanol and energy production, and land transformation activities in South America. The company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains and oilseeds, as well as fibers, including wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, sunflowers, and other; provision of grain warehousing/conditioning, handling, and drying services to third parties; and purchase and sale of crops produced by third parties. It also plants, harvests, processes, and markets rice; and produces and sells milk and other dairy products. In addition, the company engages in the cultivation and processing of sugar and ethanol, as well as cogeneration of electricity from sugarcane bagasse; and identification and acquisition of underdeveloped and undermanaged farmland, and realization of value through the strategic disposition of assets. Further, it is involved in leasing of approximately 18,005 hectares of pasture land to cattle farmers in Argentina; and coffee plantation. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned a total of 225,630 hectares, including 19 farms in Argentina, 8 farms in Brazil, and 1 farm in Uruguay; 3 rice processing facilities in Argentina; and 3 dairy facilities with approximately 9,066 milking cows in Argentina. It also had 11 grain and rice conditioning and storage plants in Argentina; and 3 sugar and ethanol mills in Brazil with a sugarcane crushing capacity of 14.2 million tons, as well as had a total of 232 megawatts of installed cogeneration capacity. Adecoagro S.A. was founded in 2002 and is based in Luxembourg.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Adecoagro S-A is owned by institutions?

  Currently 70.84% of Adecoagro S-A shares are held by institutions.

• How many people work for Adecoagro S-A?

  Latest data suggests 7,938 work at Adecoagro S-A.

• When does the fiscal year end for Adecoagro S-A?

  Adecoagro S-A's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Adecoagro S-A based?

  Adecoagro S-A's address is: Vertigo Naos Building, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2453

• What is Adecoagro S-A's ISIN number?

  Adecoagro S-A's international securities identification number is: LU0584671464

• What is Adecoagro S-A's CUSIP number?

  Adecoagro S-A's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: L00849106